He shall remove …: see 3.3-4. Grammatically the pronoun he may refer to the guilty person or to the priest. The specific mention of the priest later in the verse may indicate that the subject of the previous verb remove is the person offering the sacrifice. If the receptor language requires that the subject of this verb be made explicit, it is probably best to make it the offerer of the sacrifice. Compare 1.6 and 3.3, where the offerer seems to be the one who performs such actions.

For a pleasing odor to the LORD: see 1.9.

And the priest shall make atonement …: see verse 20 above.

Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .